The American, dubbed one of the best players never to win a major, has finished runner-up at the U.S. Open twice in the previous four years.

'Americans will not be able to use the oil money for reconstruction or for awarding projects to their companies, except with the permission of a UN Security Council resolution,' says Chinmaya Gharekhan, former Indian envoy to the UN.

The total number of those suspended since the trouble over SARS began has gone up to 27.

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India will find it tough to meet its fiscal deficit target for the new year starting in April, given its plans to cut taxes and step up spending on infrastructure, Moody's Investors Service said.

'No party has endangered "national security" as severely, as the BJP, by dividing the nation and severing it from the very people who constitute it. And none has tried to drive such a wedge between Hindus and others, and among the Hindus themselves.'